Steve, don't worry about coming back as a slug. You've already moved to a considerably more complex level than that, me lad! ;-) No sense reverting back to one's very early origions, is there?

You see, Darwin's theory proposes physical evolution...which seems self-evident to me. The theory of reincarnation proposes spiritual evolution. As far as I'm concerned, the two would go hand in hand and are twin reflections of the same process, simply manifesting at different levels, so to speak, but definitely interconnected.

I do not regard a belief in evolution as being antithetical to religion...only to very primitive forms of fundamentalist religion. All the religions of the East have evolution bound up inherently in their whole concept of spirituality.